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Deuteronomy 12:20-32 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

20. When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever your soul desires.

21. If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatsoever your soul desires.

22. Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23. Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

24. You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

25. You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

26. Only your holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose.

27. And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

28. Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

29. When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go to possess them, and you displace them, and dwell in their land;

30. Take heed to yourself that you are not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

31. You shall not do so unto the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.

32. Whatsoever thing I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor take away from it.

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